İbrahim Kalın

Turkey does not currently have a military plan for an assault on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group's stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said.

Turkish citizens are dismayed by the "double standards" applied by the European Union since Turkey's coup attempt of July 15 and are now putting the government under "huge pressure" to end accession negotiations, Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu has claimed. 

Çavuşoğlu accused the bloc of "dishing out criticism" but not accepting it in return.